In an opinion piece written for the IAM website, Jonathan Stoud highlights what the State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR) letter to Avanci means to standards leadership. The letter puts Avanci on notice for potentially acting anticompetitively, asking it to address monopoly risks related to its licensing practices.
Judgment Day - coverage of the judgment preservation insurance market bubble
In an article published by Carrier Management, Jonathan Stroud, General Counsel for Unified Patents, is quoted over the increase in sales of judgment preservation insurance (JPI). JPI is a type of insurance that covers the possibility that an award granted at the trial court level could be reversed or reduced on appeal. The policy guarantees the policyholder would receive an agreed-upon financial amount should the verdict go in an unfavorable direction.
“The brokers really started a push toward sales. Their timing was good, as eye-popping verdicts were happening. People started to think maybe this is something, maybe we’re getting left out by not buying the insurance. The brokers capitalized on these fears.”
Jonathan Stroud, Unified Patents
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Comments to the USPTO submitted regarding terminal disclaimer practice
Through policy advocacy work with Unified Edge, Unified Patents has submitted comments to the USPTO's recent NPRM regarding conditions for obtaining terminal disclaimers to obviate obviousness-type double patenting.
In 2022, the USPTO requested comments regarding USPTO Initiatives to Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights. The Office has proposed a rule that would cut down on examiner wear-down and the abusive assertions of obvious variations of continuation patents through current terminal disclaimer practice. Unified has written to support the proposed rule.
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NPRM comments submitted regarding discretionary denials and serial/parallel petitions
As part of the advocacy work of Unified Edge, Unified Patents has submitted comments to the PTAB's recent NPRM advocating against the codification of rules regarding discretionary denials under § 325(d) and for serial/parallel petitions.
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Another ETRI HEVC patent revoked in EPO
On June 6, 2024, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 2672708. The EP ‘708 patent is owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The patent is related to patents that have been declared essential to Access Advance and SISVEL’s AV1 and VP9 patent pools. The claims are generally directed to video coding/decoding methods and apparatuses that use a clipped motion vector.
Unified is represented by Owain Staines and Susan Keaton at HGF Law and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.